Happy holidays! Latest Word is off until Thursday

PAINT THE TOWN READ! Latest Word is taking a long winter's nap -- until early Thursday, December 26. Until then, enjoy our continuing look back at the last year. Happy holidays!

Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword, Denver’s News and Arts weekly, in 1977; she’s been the editor there ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly Colorado Public Television roundtable Colorado Inside Out, the former president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies -- a post that got her an unexpected interview with former President Bill Clinton in front of a thousand people (while she was in flip-flops) -- and played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City.